Teridion Names Former HPE Exec Saar Gillai CEO
He played a key role in moving HPE into the SDN and NFV space.
Musing: Network Fabrics Of History
Once upon a time, there were many fabrics. There can be only one.
History of Networking: Radia Perlman and Spanning Tree
On this episode of the History of Networking over at the Network Collective, we interviewed Radia Perlman about the origin of Spanning Tree. She is really delightful, and we plan on bringing her back on in the future to talk about other topics in the history of networking technology.
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Juniper Cites Cloud Vertical in Cutting Q3 Revenue, EPS Forecasts
Company executives had touted its cloud business as part of its Q2 results.
More Accurate IT Acronyms
IT is flooded with acronyms. It takes a third of our working life to figure out what they all mean. Protocols aren’t any easier to figure out if it’s just a string of three or four letters that look vaguely like a word. Which, by the way, you should never pronounce.
But what if the acronyms of our favorite protocols didn’t describe what the designers wanted but instead described what they actually do?
- Sporadic Network Mangling Protocol
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Obscurity Sends Packets Flying
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Expensive Invention Gets Routers Puzzled
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Vexing Router Firmware
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Really Intensive Protocol
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Someone Doesn’t Worry About Networking
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Somewhat Quixotic Language
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Blame It oN DNS
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Cisco’s Universal Call Misdirector
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Some Mail’s Thrown Places
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Mangles Packets, Looks Silly
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Amazingly Convoluted Lists
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ImProperly SECured
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May Push Lingering Sanity To Expire
Are there any other ones you can think of? Leave it in the comments.
Cisco ACI Connects Multiple Data Centers Across Geographies
The data center software also integrates with Kubernetes.
Forthcoming: Computer Networking Problems and Solutions
The new book should be out around the 29th of December, give or take a few days. For readers interested in what Ethan and I (and Ryan, and Pete Welcher, and Jordan Martin, and Nick Russo, and… the entire list is in the front matter), the general idea is essentially grounded in RFC1925, rule 11. There is really only a moderately sized set of problems computer system needs to solve in order to carry data from one application to another. For instance, in order to transport data across a network, you need to somehow format the data so everyone can agree on how to write and read it, ensure the data is carried without errors, ensure neither the sender nor the receiver overrun or underrun one another, and find some way to allow multiple applications (hosts, etc.), to talk over the same media. These four problems have somewhat proper names, of course: marshaling, which involves dictionaries and grammars; error control; flow control; and multiplexing. So the first step in understanding network engineering is to figure out what the problems are, and how to break them apart.
Once you understand the problems, then you can start thinking about solutions. As Continue reading
Is the Data-Driven Network Next?
Analysis of large volumes of real-time network data can help optimize network forwarding mechanisms.
Is the Data-Driven Network Next?
Analysis of large volumes of real-time network data can help optimize network forwarding mechanisms.
History Of Networking – Radia Perlman – Spanning Tree
Radia Perlman joins Network Collective to talk about the history of the Spanning Tree Protocol. Love it or hate it, it’s been a fundamental part of every Ethernet network for the past 30 years and isn’t likely to fade away any time soon.
Radia Perlman
Guest
Jordan Martin
Host
Donald Sharp
Host
Russ White
Host
Outro Music:
Danger Storm Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
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History Of Networking – Radia Perlman – Spanning Tree
Radia Perlman joins Network Collective to talk about the history of the Spanning Tree Protocol. Love it or hate it, it’s been a fundamental part of every Ethernet network for the past 30 years and isn’t likely to fade away any time soon.
Radia Perlman
Guest
Jordan Martin
Host
Donald Sharp
Host
Russ White
Host
Outro Music:
Danger Storm Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
The post History Of Networking – Radia Perlman – Spanning Tree appeared first on Network Collective.
Vodafone’s New SDN and NFV Head Tells Vendors to Work Together
The company’s virtualization effort is Project Ocean.
Worth Reading: GDPR and Personal Data
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My Lexicon: Fexen
Fexen (noun, pl.; pronounced Fex-uhn)
Usage
“Do we have any copper FEXen on those switches?”
Explanation
Fexen is the plural of FEX (the Cisco Nexus Fabric Extender modules). Oh, I know, “FEXes” is just as easy to say, but somehow FEXen seems to work better. Try and use this word in conversation today and see how it feels.
“We have about 20 FEXen distributed around the data center.”
I think you’ll like it.
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Cloudflare London Meetup Recap
Cloudflare helps make over 6 million websites faster and more secure. In doing so, Cloudflare has a vast and diverse community of users throughout the world. Whether discussing Cloudflare on social media, browsing our community forums or following Pull Requests on our open-source projects; there is no shortage of lively discussions amongst Cloudflare users. Occasionally, however, it is important to move these discussions out from cyberspace and take time to connect in person.
A little while ago, we did exactly this and ran a meetup in the Cloudflare London office. Ivan Rustic from Hardenize was our guest speaker, he demonstrated how Hardenize developed a Cloudflare App to help build a culture of security. I presented two other talks which included a primer on how the Cloudflare network is architected and wrapped up with a discussion on how you can build and monetise your very own Cloudflare App.
Since we presented this meet-up, I've received a few requests to share the videos of all the talks. You can find all three of the talks from our last London office meet-up in this blog post.
How Cloudflare Works
App Highlight: Hardenize by Ivan Ristić
Introduction to Building with Cloudflare Apps
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Response: Network Management: Why the CLI?
People get angry when I talk about the death of the CLI for network operations. I’m not the only one: I believe that in today’s network device landscape, the CLI is primarily a tool to promote vendor lock-in by training network engineers to rely on and value it so highly. Yes, devices can be configured […]